Speech · Funeral orationFirst in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.Henry Lee III1799★ 6.9
PoemAnd the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.Samuel Taylor Coleridge1799★ 3.7
LetterThe tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.William Blake1799★ 3.7
PoemAll thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame.Samuel Taylor Coleridge1799★ 3.6
SpeechWhere today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.TecumsehBury My Heart at Wounded Knee · 1799★ 3.6
Political literatureIt is humbling to reflect, that in those countries in which the fondness for the mere persons of women is carried to the highest excess, they are slaves; and that their moral and intellectual degradation increases in direct proportion to the adoration which is paid to mere external charms.Hannah More1799★ 3.5
Speech · Political speechThe God of nature never intended that Ireland should be a province, and by God she never will.Thomas Goold1799★ 1.9
Is it not a fundamental error to consider children as innocent beings, whose little weaknesses may perhaps want some correction, rather than as beings who bring into the world a corrupt nature and evil dispositions, which it should be the great end of education to rectify?Hannah MoreStrictures on the Modern System of Female Education · 1799★ 1.8
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